Dan Rather said Big Business is in Bed with Big Government What say you ?

by Tudie BN Posted 2012/06/01 19:26:37

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Mr. T 2012/06/02 12:05:33

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Oh course they are...where do you think all of the big money for their campaigns comes from? Rich support the rich and buy the regulations they want to squeeze out the middle class. And Obama says he is all for the middle class....WAF Joke.
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D D to The Ban... 2012/06/02 14:18:35

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It's crazy that people believe this. Many here on SH do.

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William to The Ban... 2012/06/02 19:25:10

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I was going to say that, but you did it so beautifully!

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EdVenture to The Ban... 2012/06/02 23:36:53

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I call it a plutocracy and they're going for broke in this election.

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Pamela Perkins 2012/06/02 10:22:47

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Dan Rather is a well known lier. Thats why he got fired from CBS. This might be true in some cases, but I would not trust Rather about anything he says.

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D D to Pamela ... 2012/06/02 14:20:56

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Rather is repeating what is already known. So we are not taking his word for it.

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Charles... to D D 2012/06/02 22:14:26

Yeah DD - that's pretty sad when someone like me ......... AGREES with a well-known Liberal, eh?

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Lady Whitewolf 2012/06/02 09:45:50

Hmm

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Tell us something we DON'T know....

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Cap'n Jack 2012/06/02 08:46:02

None of the above

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I'd say that's a case of the pot calling the kettle "black".

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Andrew 2012/06/02 08:37:31

Hmm

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Is he supposed to be telling us something we don't know? When the THUG, Big Government, comes calling, some businesses give in because they think that's the way to survive. This is why government needs to be extracted from ALL commerce and taxation of individuals and business! Our tax system should be according to use and use alone. Therefore, nobody could be influenced by the power of government to overtax or withhold funding!

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EdVenture to Andrew 2012/06/02 23:43:15

Then you would have no competition, safeguards, transparency or a democracy in short time. A hand full of bankers would be running everything.

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Andrew to EdVenture 2012/06/03 10:00:39

Explain how that would happen.

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C-ZAR™, Emperor of the PHÆT 2012/06/02 08:37:17

Hmm

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Tell us something we didn't know, lol

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smilinbobs 2012/06/02 07:44:38

other

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only the ignorant wouldn't already know this it's been this way for my entire life time. Not really news just a fact of life. I would hope that anyone who cares about politics was already aware of this fact

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Julian 2012/06/02 06:46:09

Hmm

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Big business is in bed with big government, big media, and big banking RIGHT NOW in Chantilly Virginia, meeting in SECRET at the Bilderberg Conference.

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Pat 2012/06/02 06:31:22

Undecided

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Actually, I'm not undecided. Big Business and Big Government are absolutely in bed with each other. It's almost like a revolving door. While in Congress they get donations, PAC money as incentives to do big businesses bidding and when they get out of Congress they go to work for the business that's been paying them all along. Great country, America.

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Marcus Clark 2012/06/02 06:30:10

None of the above

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Does anyone actually pay attention to anything Dan Rather says?

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C-ZAR™,... to Marcus ... 2012/06/02 08:38:51

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Yes

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sjalan 2012/06/02 05:59:22

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He's got it wrong and should really have said Big Business/corporatists are in bed with the Republican Party and the Evangelicals in an unholy trinity of fascism.

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Defend ... to sjalan 2012/06/02 11:08:20

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the repbublicans and democrats are both liberal progressives
your attack on Christians is nothing but RACISM which Represents Obamas hate of Americans who do not worship him as a god
Dan Blather is a Lying Anti Semite Joke

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Charles... to Defend ... 2012/06/02 11:52:50

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Be easy on sjalan Defend ................. he only knows what was taught to him in school & what he hears/reads/see from the Balmestream Media - which is Republicans baaaa-aad! Democrats - goood! ANd that all Democrats have "our" best interest at heart!

In other words, he's a member

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Defend ... to Charles... 2012/06/02 12:21:19

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true

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Pamela ... to Defend ... 2012/06/03 12:03:53

You are right on Rather.

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D D to sjalan 2012/06/02 14:29:27

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Please tell me you do not actually believe this. The corporations have all politicians in their pockets. No matter which party is going they have bought them. They have no worries.

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ronbo 2012/06/02 05:52:13

Aw

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Gee Dan ,after all these years you finally figured that out? I,m sure Walter is turning over in his grave over this.

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exhon2009 2012/06/02 04:51:40

None of the above

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When he was on TV I always said I'd rather not watch Dan Rather. If it's true that's an indictment of the incumbent administration.

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JohnT 2012/06/02 04:22:51

Hmm

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It has always been biased based upon who owns the particular network, and media group. Rather is not out to lunch, he just called them out and they did not like it.

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carri byers 2012/06/02 04:07:37 (edited)

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DUH! This is exactly why I always ask libs why they are hell bent on giving more control to govt as apposed to big business. After all, big business doesn't have armies, the IRS, FBI, CIA and all civic services under its control ---- the government does. Which basically mean it has us under its control if it wishes. If we make sure govt is kept small and its powers balanced and limited, then business will be so constrained as well.

That is why when Franklin was asked, after the Constitutional Convention, what type of govt he and the other founding fathers had given the people, his response was “A Republic, madam, if you can keep it!” We must keep our govt reigned in.

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DoxieDad 2012/06/02 03:49:17

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Well Duh! What a fracking news flash that was. Thanks Dan.

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abycinnamon BN-1 2012/06/02 03:45:56

Hmm

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I think Dan Rather is absolutely right. And, as usual, oreilly is FOS.

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ServantOfAllah 2012/06/02 03:38:43

Hmm

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absolutely. money buys politicians and politicians make the laws. together they are crushing small business in America.

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Tudie BN to Servant... 2012/06/02 06:31:16

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Thanks Foxhound !

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Defend ... to Servant... 2012/06/02 11:08:55

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no that's the terrorist anti semite obama regime

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Christopher Kirchen 2012/06/02 03:25:21

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Funny from a Big Government Liberal!

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Shovel ... to Christo... 2012/06/02 16:22:01

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luvguins 2012/06/02 03:23:23

Hmm

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Absolutley. Our government is bought and paid for by lobbyists for corporations, and It is naive tio think otherwise. Jack Abramoff confesses after his prison term just how bad it is.

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Freedom... to luvguins 2012/06/02 17:15:23

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Glad we can finally agree on something :)

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luvguins to Freedom... 2012/06/02 17:32:27

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Nothing will change either if the money is not removed from politics. The country is now of, by, and for the billionaires campaign donations, and they expect a lot more in return. The same thing happened in the Gilded Age of 1896.

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Freedom... to luvguins 2012/06/02 17:41:31

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Don't get me wrong I'm libertarian so I am very much a supporter of the free market and I am not against democracy. However I have often said that when democracy and capitalism are combined you are left with a dictatorship ran by mass media.

I am honestly not sure how to fix this problem. Me and my friends stay up nights debating ways to get corruption out of politics as we have come to the conclusion that corruption is the key to every problem our country faces.

Another one of my quotes is:
Capitalism is slavery using materialism as a whip.
Meaning that today's Americans being up to their eyeballs in debt is little better than indentured servitude. It is better of course, but the likenesses should be noticed.

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luvguins to Freedom... 2012/06/02 17:51:18

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I have been attacked on this site innumerable times for saying that we have had corrupt capitalism since the 80s. Capitalism and free market is wonderful when not corrupted. It made this country prosperous in the 50s and 60s for all.

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William to luvguins 2012/06/02 19:34:14

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It's been going on for much longer than that. At least since the late 19th century.

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